You're evading the question.

I'm not.

What's the number?

How many migrants should America take in for you?

There's a process, and we should lend everyone who abides by that process, right?

Oh, but stop the limit.

It should be unlimited.

You know, even after being screamed at, sprayed with fluids, burned in effigy, and nearly

blown up on campus, I still love speaking at universities, which is why I was thrilled when this semester's

Yaff speaking tour brought me back to my old stomping grounds, Yale.

How do you prepare to give a speech on campus?

Well, what most sensible guest lecturers do is either wing it or just give the same speech over and over,

which is very tempting.

But I like to write a new speech every time because it lets me really focus in on the most pressing issues of the time,

whatever's going on that week, what's going on at that place,

and the current events angle gives me a greater ability

to lure the audience into whichever obscure philosophical

point or tradition I actually want to talk about. The principle is sort of like a little

bit of sugar makes the medicine go down.

How far in advance do you write these?

I generally write them if I can before I am walking on stage.

That is about the earliest that I write them though.

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